Bruce Green, director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics at Fordham Law, speaks with Bloomberg Law after President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of personal lawyers for top U.S. Department of Justice posts raised alarms of concern.
Presidents have historically picked confidants as attorney general, from George Washington’s choice of his personal lawyer as the nation’s first AG to John F. Kennedy tapping his brother.
“Often the hope is that people under them have a more independent relationship to the president and are able to offset to some degree the relationship to the attorney general and the president,” said Bruce Green, director of the Stein Center for Law and Ethics at the Fordham University School of Law. “That’s something that may be difficult here.”
Read “Trump’s Own Lawyers Induce Fear, Faith at Justice Department (1)” in Bloomberg Law.
